1. How well do you feel you are able to do this?
Scholarly activity on personal tutoring and coaching and its impact on student performance
Brain warmer
“The ever-changing and diverse backgrounds of learners, along with the challenges these present, mean understanding learners individually is the best way to support them to succeed”.
(Stork & Walker, 2015)
How well do you feel you are able to do this?
Thinking point 1
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2. Developing an under-developed area: 8 Scholarly activity on personal tutoring and coaching and its impact on student performance
Ben Walker & Andrew Stork

3. https://padlet.com/ben_walker2/NACADACONFERENCE2017
Scholarly activity on personal tutoring and coaching and its impact on student performance
Scholarly activity on personal tutoring and coaching and its impact on student performance
About this session
To get the most out of the session…
Thinking points
Acknowledge we have different levels of knowledge and experience
Openness & honesty is a virtue
The all important follow up - all materials on Padlet for your use:
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4. Scholarly activity on personal tutoring and coaching and its impact on student performance
Staff Development Programme
Book
Improving student performance
Academic Research
Our Story:
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5. Outstanding personal tutoring
Scholarly activity on personal tutoring and coaching and its impact on student performance
Scholarly activity on personal tutoring and coaching and its impact on student performance
“The personal tutor is one who improves the intellectual and academic ability, and nurtures the emotional well-being, of learners through individualised, holistic support.”
Student success
Outstanding teaching
Outstanding personal tutoring
Stork & Walker (2015)
Ben Walker & Andrew Stork

6. Personal tutoring practice
Scholarly activity on personal tutoring and coaching and its impact on student performance
Scholarly activity on personal tutoring and coaching and its impact on student performance
Personal tutoring practice
Core values and skills
Setting boundaries
Key activities and procedures
Reflective practice
Observation
Measuring impact
Professional development
One to one tutorials
Solution-focused coaching
Key characteristics
Research
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7. Scholarly activity on personal tutoring and coaching and its impact on student performance
Research – overview
The impact of one to one conversations and a specific coaching technique.
Focus groups and questionnaires (x3 - 3 month period - beginning, middle and end) with 14 tutor groups.
We asked learners what was helpful about their one to one coaching conversations with their personal tutor and why. In learner-friendly language, we asked them about the effect on their academic performance and emotional wellbeing.
7 tutorial groups were questioned on how helpful the tool of scaling was for them on the above.
Ben Walker & Andrew Stork

8. The impact of scaling as a technique was not statistically significant
Scholarly activity on personal tutoring and coaching and its impact on student performance
Scholarly activity on personal tutoring and coaching and its impact on student performance
Research – findings
The impact of scaling as a technique was not statistically significant
One to one tutorials really valuable
Approach most had not experienced before
Equal partner not superior approach
Feelings elicited:
trustworthiness, friendliness, motivation, being appreciated, relaxed
Negative emotions could be offloaded
Look forward and identify areas for development
Two way conversation
Most useful when used with SMART targets
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9. Scholarly activity on personal tutoring and coaching and its impact on student performance
Measuring Impact
“The personal tutor is one who improves the intellectual and academic ability, and nurtures the emotional well-being, of learners through individualised, holistic support.”
Thinking Point 2
What are all the ways you think these elements can be measured?
Intellectual and academic ability – attainment, assessment scores, module grades
Emotional wellbeing – can be more difficult to measure. However, methods include: results of questionnaires, use of scaling, focus groups
Importance of timescale and comparison
Ben Walker & Andrew Stork

10. Institutional personal tutoring systems
Scholarly activity on personal tutoring and coaching and its impact on student performance
Scholarly activity on personal tutoring and coaching and its impact on student performance
Institutional personal tutoring systems
Generally, institutions organise their personal tutoring in the following ways:
Centralised system =
Scholarly activity?
Better KPIs?
Traditional
Centralised
Hybrid
Teaching staff have personal tutoring as part of their overall role and deliver tutorials and support.
A specialised and dedicated team of non-teaching staff (for example, ‘super tutors’) deliver tutorials and support.
A mixture of the traditional and centralised models.
Ben Walker & Andrew Stork

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Scholarly activity on personal tutoring and coaching and its impact on student performance
Scholarly activity on personal tutoring and coaching and its impact on student performance
From scholarly activity to improving practice
Thinking (…and discussion) point 3 – (20 mins)
Identify your current standards through completing the personal tutor self-assessment system
The self-assessment system are available on the Padlet:
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Scholarly activity on personal tutoring and coaching and its impact on student performance
Scholarly activity on personal tutoring and coaching and its impact on student performance
What Next?
The all important follow up…
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